ἵνα

See also: -ινα and -ίνα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῐ̔́ν’ (hín’) — apocopic

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hí.na/ → /ˈi.na/ → /ˈi.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hí.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)i.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/

Conjunction

ῐ̔́νᾰ • (hína)

1. Subordinating conjunction
   1. final, introducing a subordinate clause expressing a purpose: in order that, so that, so
   2. introducing a clause of effort, indicating what someone is trying to accomplish: that
   3. (usually poetic) where

Descendants

• Greek: να (na)

References

• “ἵνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἵνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἵνα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἵνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἵνα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἵνα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • master idem, page 517.
  • order idem, page 578.
  • short idem, page 768.
  • that idem, page 863.
  • where idem, page 975.
  • whither idem, page 977.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part IV: Syntax”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 2193, 2209, 2498